Sentence examples for diplomatic rules from inspiring English sources

"For 18 years, the peace process has gone on?" said a high-ranking Egyptian diplomat speaking anonymously under diplomatic rules.

Iran complained loudly that the men were diplomats and that their arrest violated accepted diplomatic rules.

"One should not talk about keeping the status quo because that would be dangerous," one European diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity under diplomatic rules.

"It was the only high-profile international target they could hope to successfully hit," said one diplomat in Algiers, who requested anonymity under normal diplomatic rules.

"This is a real shame because the key effect should be Obama, and this dilutes from that," said one European diplomat, speaking on the condition of anonymity under normal diplomatic rules.

According to a Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity in accord with usual diplomatic rules, Mr. Karzai's focus on being re-elected in 2009 now colors every move.

Mr. Bush and top administration officials are known to believe that to renounce force unequivocally beforehand — as a general diplomatic rule, not just in dealing with Iran — would render the United States powerless diplomatically.

The diplomatic rule-book wasn't written by a bunch of liberals on CNN to thwart the designs of the Trump administration.

To Pompeo, and to his boss, flouting the diplomatic rule-book was a feature of this Venezuela policy, not a bug.

It also had the very concrete result of not placing the Palestinian paragraph in dispute, and the diplomatic rule of thumb is that paragraphs that have not been flagged as controversial cannot be reopened for discussion, as negotiations finalize an end product.

"We know there are going to be Sadrist ministries," said an American diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under normal diplomatic ground rules.